MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology have empowered
humans
all over the world
to take courses online.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Macau to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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